The specific brief for the object to be designed will be announced on Saturday 26^th May 2018

Roca's aim is to engage with young designers to discover original and innovative solutions for the bathroom. In supporting future design talent, Roca is offering a platform that provides designers with an opportunity to promote their creativity, through an intensive but exciting design challenge that focuses specifically on the bathroom space. Improving user interaction with bathroom products is paramount to Roca, as are key areas including sustainability, personal wellbeing and accessibility.

Participants can register at www.onedaydesignchallenge.net until 24:00 (GMT - 01) on 24^th May 2018

Candidates participating at the RLG can also register in person at the Roca London Galleryon the day of the event itself, 26^th May 2018 from 9.00 am until 9.30am.

Roca London Gallery reserves the right to close registration on site if the capacity of the space is full.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the organization reserves the right not to accept new registrations in the event that, in the organization’s opinion, the number of participants registered hinders the smooth running of the competition.

When registering, participants should include the following information and documentation:

• Name and surname/s.
• School or company.
• Address (street number, town/city and postal code).
• Contact telephone number and e-mail.
• Copy of valid UK driving licence or passport, as an image file attached. The file name should use the format: SURNAME_NAME.

Participants registering in person should bring their valid driving licence or passport along with them in order to enrol. Registration will not he admitted without a valid driving licence or passport.

Any registration submitted without any of the above information shall be null and void.

Only one registration per person can be accepted and, once the registration number has been confirmed, it can no longer be changed. Duplicated registrations by the same person will also be considered null and void.

This competition is aimed at design students and young professionals living within the United Kingdom and who were born on or after the 26^th May 1988 until the 26^th May 2000.

Participants can take part individually or in groups of up to 3 members, on the condition that all of the members meet the aforementioned requirements.

The following persons are excluded from participating:

• The winners of 1st, 2nd or 3rd prize of the previous editions of the competition.
• Employees of companies that form part of the Roca Group and their relatives up to 4th degree of consanguinity

At 09.30 am on 26^th May, the design topic will be announced live at the venue of the event.

The design period for the competition will run from 09.30am to 5.00pm.

At 5.30pm, the jury will deliberate in order to choose the winning projects of the 2^nd Roca One Day Design Challenge United Kingdom edition.

At 7.30pm, the award ceremony will take place and the jury will announce the winners of the first, second, third and the We Are Water Foundation prize.

The members of the jury will base their evaluations on the creativity and originality of the designs, as well as their viability, while also giving credit for the clarity, legibility and graphic design of the presentations.

The first prize-winner will receive a prize of £1,000.

The second prize-winner will receive a prize of £650.

The third prize-winner will receive a prize of £350 

In addition, the jury may discretionally award a special prize of £500 provided by the We Are Water Foundation, to the project which significantly adheres to the value of sustainability. The jury may leave the said prize unawarded if in their opinion none of the projects significantly adheres to the value of sustainability and / or has not enough quality. 

All the prizes are subject to the current tax regulations. Roca Limited will make the corresponding Income Tax payments for the prize-winners. The tax withholdings corresponding to the first prize of £1,000, the second prize of £650 and third prize of £350, as well as the special sustainability prize of £500 if awarded, will be discounted for the respective winners from the total amount of these awards.  

Awards specified above shall be payed by bank check to the award winners.

The award shall be paid in pounds.

In order to be eligible to receive the economic award corresponding to each position (first, second, third and We Are Water Foundation prizes), the awarded person (and in case of groups, at least one of the members of the awarded group) shall be present in the Award Ceremony (7.30pm at Roca London Gallery) to collect the award. 

If the awarded person (or at least one member of the awarded group) is not present during the Award Ceremony he/she (the group) will lose its right to the economic award but will maintain its condition of awarded person/group on the Roca One Day Design Challenge UK 2018. 

All the winners will also be invited to visit the Roca London Gallery and take part in a workshop. The prize includes return transport from their home address within the national territory that the successful participants used to register for the competition, as well as lunch on the day of the visit. Both the transport and the lunch will be contracted by Roca.

If in any moment before the payment of the prizes the Organization detects that any of the awarded projects do not meet the conditions set out in these rules because it is not an original project or for any other reasons, the project affected by such circumstance will be disqualified and the following winners and substitute winners will upgrade one place in the winners classification. If any prize could not be awarded because there are no enough substitute winners, such prize will be declared as unawarded. 

From 7.30pm, participants are invited to stay for a drink. The event ends at 8.30pm.

To design the projects, participants can use any manual or digital 2D, 3D tool, scale model, photograph, collage, etc. However, the concepts must be described and illustrated on two A3 sheets or less.

Roca London Gallery will have limited charging points during the day. Participants are advised to bring a fully charged laptop with them. The Gallery is not responsible for damage to or loss of the participant’s belongings during the event.

The projects can be submitted at a desk clearly located within the Roca London Gallery, presented on a USB that will be provided by the Roca London Gallery on arrival. The participant must specify their registration number on the USB. There should be no other files on the pen drive except the final competition files.

The submission period for projects is from 3.00pm to 5.00pm on 26^th May.

In order to submit a project, it is essential that participants have enrolled by the registration deadline on the 24^th May or at the Roca London Gallery on 26^th May between 9.00am to 9.30am. Only one project may be submitted by each participant or group registered.

To guarantee the confidentiality of the participants, the real name of the individual or group participating should not appear on the A3 sheets submitted. The projects will be identified by the title and registration number.

Each participant or group should submit 2 digital files which must comply with the following specifications without exception: